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These days we are surrounded by so
many inventions. They have made our
lives easier, faster, fun-filled and more
secure (or less secure, if we take the
bombs and other horrible weapons into
account).
Each inventions has a story to tell.
Some of them are sagas of hard work,
which took nearly a life-time, and often
went un-rewarded. Some inventions
were not sought for at all; they ‘just
happened’. Stories behind some of these
inventions are funny...
It was the first decade of the 19th
century. A doctor and his younger
brother were busily experimenting with
vegetarian cooking in thekitchen attached to their hospital, in the
town of Battle Creek, Michigan, U.S.A.
With the help of his younger brother
Will, Dr John Harvey Kellogg was
trying to discover a vegetarian recipe that
would satisfy the taste-buds of his
patients who were finding it too hard to
give up fish and meat dishes. The doctor
conducted a health clinic where the
patients stayed and took treatment. His
treatment had a good deal of nature cure
as its part; the patients had to stick to a
strict regimen of being in the open air
doing the prescribed exercises and
taking plenty of rest. As regards food,
fish and meat were forbidden; they were
allowed only bland vegetarian
food. No wonder his patients, most
of them accustomed to “good
living”, were unhappy with the diet
prescribed by the earnest doctor.
The Kellogg brothers
conducted their research in the
evenings after hospital hours.
They boiled, mashed, roasted
and baked grains and nuts.
Several evenings passed without
yielding the desired
results.
The brothers did not
give up. One evening they were boiling yet another batch of
grains when they had to leave it and go
out on some urgent errand. They left the
pot to cool on the stove.
It was two days later that they were
able to get back to their experiment. By
then, the over-boiled mush had started
to dry and go mouldy.
But they did not discard it. Instead
they continued their experiment. They
passed the dried dough through rollers
to flatten it. The result was a pleasant
surprise. Each grain formed a separate
flake and each flake tasted equally
delicious. Thus that evening witnessed
the discovery of corn flakes.
The doctor was happy that he had,
after all the trouble, arrived at good
health food for his hospital. But his
brother saw a business opportunity in it
as well. He bought the doctor’s share of
the invention, took a patent on it, and
built up a huge business: the famous
‘Kellogg’s corn flakes’, which are now
available in India too. Introduced in
India in 1994, it is today the country’s
most popular breakfast cereal brand with
annual sales over Rs.620 crore! The
Kellogg brothers and their Corn flakes
truly revolutionized the breakfast habits
of the world!
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